Selena Gomez Is Billboard’s Woman of the Year

Selena Gomez is Billboard’s Woman of the Year and this couldn’t come at a better time for the singer, who’s had to deal with a lot of health issues this year. Over the last couple of years, she’s had to deal with the pains of lupus, including anxiety, depression, and kidney failure and transplant.

It’s definitely been one of the toughest years for the singer, but yet she’s been making music and has even helped raise $500,000 for lupus research. She was recently quoted saying that she doesn’t want people to feel sad for her over her kidney transplant and lupus.

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